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4 unusual facts about Denise McCluggage


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One of the editors involved with the creation of the magazine was professional racer Denise McCluggage.

Denise McCluggage

She was married for one year to actor Michael Conrad, perhaps best known for his portrayal of veteran cop Phil Esterhaus on Hill Street Blues.

In the mid-1950s, after a failed lobbying attempt to get the State of New York to develop a new ski area on Hunter Mountain, the original investor group contacted McCluggage, then a sports reporter at the New York Herald Tribune.

They told her they had a mountain to give away to any developer who would build a ski area called "Hunter Mountain".



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